Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

Interior liberty is universal.